Alex

were spending our Friday tearing up halfway through East of Eden my friends

Rereading East of Eden for the first time since I was a senior in HS and every page there‘s a sentence or phrase that is so good and perfect. God bless Steinbeck

conservative evangelicalism is the direct theological offspring of slaveholder christianity and it contains all of its pathologies, part infinity

it's very simple: if you don't believe this, you don't follow Christ.

quite literally the Gospel message yes

Pope Leo XIV Mourns Maronite Priest Killed by Israeli Tank Fire in Southern Lebanon Father Pierre el-Rahi ran toward the wounded after a Merkava tank shelled a home in Qlayaa. A second shell killed him. The Vatican named him within hours.

Father Pierre el-Rahi told his parish three days before his death: "We carry only the weapons of peace."

An Israeli Merkava tank fired twice at the same home in Qlayaa. He ran toward the wounded after the first shell.

The second one killed him.

www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leo-x...

When it’s 630pm this evening and it’s still light out, it is legitimately one of the happiest moments of my year.

Essential read: a statement from Cardinal Cupich. www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

A digitally drawn homage to the George Herriman comic strip Krazy Kat. Starting left of frame we see yellow Ignatz Mouse having just thrown a brick which is sailing across the center of the frame and in another instant will bash the oblivious Krazy Kat (a blue bipedal cartoon cat wearing a red scarf) in the back of the head as he walks innocently to the right. Everything is drawn in rough black pen and colored in pale washes. A speech bubble from Ignatz reads ‘Maybe it will…’, the word ’Happen’ appears in the whooshing trail of the sailing brick, and a final speech bubble belonging to the Kat reads ‘…Today’.

Markwayne is actually a noble title, and is the Oklahoma equivalent to "Marquis," and may be passed on at the same time your father gives you his car dealership

She’s like a liar gone to burning hell

As always

Yeah. And let me also be clear. I’ve never trusted Trump on this, or on the economy, or on keeping us safe in general. You are trusting him on this, though, right? No. You aren’t? I’m trusting the military and our generals. I’m trusting what I understand to be the operation and the people leading it—that is, the generals and our military and our allies. You’re trusting the people leading the operation who don’t include the President? Well, I don’t trust that guy. Yeah. He’s the Commander-in-Chief, right? Sure. Yeah. But I can’t [trust him]. And he’s proven that over the past couple of days, being all over the place, unlike everybody else involved in this.

Lol

this is good. more of this!

I had a strange, 10 month reformed phase over 10 years ago okay?

woke john piper is something 19 year old alex would have been unironically into

Some bot account complaining about pronouns in bio shit. I asked the bot to write a poem about pangolins and it did

It happened again

Liz Cooper, "New Day"

Mod Lang, "Borrowed Time"

Nashpaints, "Everyone Good Is Called Molly"

Remember Sports, "The Refrigerator"

Fresh Thursday newsletter of album, movie, and book recs.

If you dig Feist, you'll love Liz Cooper.
If you dig Sharp Pins, you'll love Mod Lang.
If you dig Cindy Lee, you'll love Nashpaints.
If you dig Ratboys, you'll love Remember Sports.

www.noexpectations.fyi/p/mod-lang-l...

unbelievably good recs this week from @joshterry.bsky.social

The Refrigerator by Remember Sports on Apple Music Album · 2026 · 12 Songs

30 seconds into this album I audibly went "oh hell yes". It's so good music.apple.com/us/album/the...

You are not immune to propaganda, oh wait you made your saving roll? You are immune to propaganda for twenty turns.

it is and I don't need that enegy rn!

some of my colleagues keep showing me the videos of that little monkey with the stuffed monkey who keeps getting bullied by the other monkeys, I don't appreciate it!

"what is bonesmashing" is one of those things where, you know, you don't need to elaborate on this one for me, i think i got it

Jay Som - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

good morning, check this out www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNWQ...

Descendent of apex predator

It’s about the door being open or closed. if you open the door it its “ethical uses in school” (let’s assume just for a moment that’s even possible), that door is by definition open for all its unethical uses and will, without a doubt, be used for those unethical ends

The line I’ve come around to is rather simple: if this tech is as useful and simple as its advocates claim, students will easily figure out how to use it later in life. But in school it is functionally a giant plagiarism machine and you can’t teach “ethical uses” of it